CHIP is finally getting funded after 114 days without a budget
Source: VOX
The Senate is expected to pass Monday a bill extending the Childrens Health Insurance Program for an additional six years, likely ending a funding crisis that has plagued the state-run health plan for the last four months.
Congress let CHIPs long-term funding lapse 114 days ago. The program became a bargaining chip in larger negotiations over the federal budget and immigration.
But things changed early Monday afternoon, as the Senate began a series of votes to a bill extending the federal budget for an additional three weeks and CHIPs budget for an additional six years.
Both the House and the President are expected to support the Senate bill, meaning that CHIP may no longer be part of the congressional budget fight, and that state programs wont have to worry about running out of money as soon as Monday evening.
Read more: https://www.vox.com/2018/1/22/16919640/chip-funding-congress-shutdown
With CHIP out of the way, we will be in a stronger bargaining position in three weeks when this extension expires.
bearsfootball516
(6,377 posts)They won't have CHIP hanging around their neck, but at the same time, they can afford to really drag it out because they don't have to worry about CHIP.
pnwmom
(108,990 posts)a CHIP hostage.
ehrnst
(32,640 posts)pay during a time when they are stretched beyond thin.
bucolic_frolic
(43,252 posts)Trump has to sign it ... could he change his minds?
Iliyah
(25,111 posts)and I have 4 of them that are on CHIP. As to DACA, I believe there will be a win also, although to my understanding ICE is rounding up as many of them to deport. Hopefully, blue states can stop many of them from being deported. It sucks. GOPers do not have a soul.
ehrnst
(32,640 posts)and any politician who thinks they are cards to deal away is profoundly mistaken.
metalbot
(1,058 posts)I mean, they could be in the future, but they all enjoy the same legal status today that they did a year ago. The program will expire in March in the absence of a legislative fix. The issue is that at that point, the government that could begin deporting them conveniently has all of their information about where they live, work, and go to school. That makes them "easy pickings" for deportation, though there is nothing to say that they'd be a deportation priority.
Cha
(297,503 posts)ehrnst
(32,640 posts)wiggs
(7,816 posts)CHIP implementation?
Pelosi said that CHIP was one thing, but that last weeks bill eliminated funding for community centers where a bunch of CHIP money is spent
pnwmom
(108,990 posts)the rest is behind a pay wall for me.
https://www.bizjournals.com/kansascity/news/2018/01/22/kc-safety-net-services-chip-funding.html
By Elise Reuter Reporter, Kansas City Business Journal
2 hours ago
A Senate bill would end the government shutdown and provide health insurance to children. But it's missing an important legislative component funding for federally qualified health centers.